It has been three weeks since Corona/ COVID-19 has taken over our world. Here in California we have been self quarantined since it started, the Bay Area was one of the first and now its all over the state.
The wife has been working from home for a week now, I work in an essential field so I still have to go into work, and that is not a complaint! The kids have been out of school now two weeks, and sadly we have very little direction from the school board on what is going on.
The collective world has gone on a toilet paper frenzy! No one knows why, but everyone went on a panic buy for all the TP!
Our Local Target a few days after the shit scare of 2020!Modern problems need modern solutions!
I have not driven for Lyft in almost 3 weeks, because of the COVID fears! Lyft has become an essential part of our lives and now that I cannot we will soon feel it. One of my wife’s coworkers sent her this below picture of his most recent ride. At first I laughed but then I was like….he is not wrong!
Week two after the TP-Apocalypse, they do not even bother to take them out of the box. Just set them down and let the masses have at it! What does a man do when faced with a virus named Corona?Not all states have the same resources, my mom lives in AL. For a while they were reporting that there were no cases in this state or that state, but in reality it was that they did not have the test for it!
We have been on full lock down for a week now, I personally do not see much of a difference other than the panic at the Costco and food stores. I must say the panic at the food stores has really shown me that people as a whole are not ready. If we where to have a real shelter in place, martial law style, many people would be in trouble.
I wish everyone the best, may the odds be ever in your favor.
With the approaching holidays we all need to do a little more. And yes I can hear the bullshit throwers ranting about how we should not go into debt for the holiday or over do things just for the idea of giving. And to that I say, fuck you and please go be poor some place else. And I am not throwing shade to people that are actually poor and struggling. I know all about the poor life! I am talking to the trolls that always want to shit in people’s corn flakes to make themselves feel better about their shity lives.
I
love giving more than receiving, it’s fun! So I am going to work more this
month so I can do just that. I am lucky that I am able to work an extra job to
do this. My Lyft Life helps with many of our bills and one of them is always
Christmas shopping. I did take a week off for Thanksgiving because…..I can.
That is part of why I like doing Lyft. You get out of it what you put into it,
you want money….earn it. You want to take time off….earn it. You need a
break…earn it. You are your own boss, your car is your business. I put the
good gas in my car, I get oil changes regularly and currently saving for those
good tires! And just a little insight to this job, I average about $20 an hour.
Another fun part about this job is that it takes me all over the place. The other night I ended up in north bumble fuck Brentwood, Ca. This is about an hour drive from home, straight out into the fucking hills. Country lanes with no street lights, farms so far out in the distance you cannot see their lights, and fog, lots and lots of fog….well at least that night there was.
I picked up a rider in Dublin and their destination was a 45 ride north to Brentwood. I am thankful this rider was one of those talkative types. We rambled on about all kinds of things; from social issues of the local crack heads to the bad orange man. Nothing overly political, more comical than anything. So the ride up went by super fast, but she was to be my last ride of the night. It was getting late and I earned my punch out time.
The
ride home was not all that bad, I had 90’s on the 9 pumping from the stereo
(nothing says road trip like Paula Abdul early 90’s!)
But the ride into the country was wild! It was foggy and visibility was very poor. I could not see more that 6 feet in front of me. I was using the GPS, the road lines and the rumble strips to help me navigate this twisted country road. And to make things interesting I was probably the only one being cautious with my driving! At various times the road became two lanes (of which I could not actually see!) and people would fly past me at speed…what the actual fuck! I kept to the right and just let them barrel on down, it was not going to be me in a ditch or worse.
This went on for about 10 minutes then the fog cleared up, it was only foggy in that one particular area. I later found out that stretch of road has accidents on it everyday because people seem to think physics do not apply to them because of their fancy car and all weather tires!
I did have to drive back through the pea soup London style fog so it was back to the slow and steady, and yes there were more daredevils on the way back! I was almost expecting to see head lights off to the side of the road, but to be honest if they had gone off the road no one would have been able to see them!
This week was to be a good week for me with my earnings, let’s hope for the same for the coming weeks. I have some vacation time coming up in about two weeks and have no plans on driving during that time. I will do my part to make the money I need, that car payment isn’t going to pay itself! I want time off, and I am out on the hustle to earn it!
Nothing says Halloween like almost 90 degree weather, but it is still that time of the year so off to the storage unit to get the decoration. I still have no idea what I want to dress up as; Lilly wants to do an Edward Scissorhands, Lucas is going to go as an post apocalyptic survivor, Seth is going to be a walking advertisement….(you will just have to wait and see) and me…..not sure. Anyone have any ideas, I am on the hunt for what I want to do this year. I have been thinking about just putting on my kilt, the helmet, and some war paint and I can be ‘The Dad!’
When dad goes Hollywood Viking! This will most likely be my costume lol!
So we put up the decoration while sweating, but it was all good. We have Sally all ready to greet the neighbors, the skulls, the pumpkins, the wreaths, Mickey and skulls…..did I mention we have skulls?!?
Sally loves meeting new people!Pumpkins and skullsDoor wreaths, me sweating and skulls!She is always soo excited when she gets to come out and play.We even have corporate greed in the disguise of a child friendly icon to help bring out the inner toddler.Gourds, pumpkins and skullsHouse decorations and skulls.Halloween 2018……I was just strange…..
We love Halloween in this house, I have only missed a few years in my entire life. My first child I had when I was 19 so I have been a dad my entire life! So at no point have I ever stopped with my trick-or-treating, and yes I even did it all through high school! One year, while in high school, I did not have a costume so I put on a suit, tie and a London Fog over coat and went as a business man, it was quick, cheap and easy…..all the things I love ha!
We have a ‘Just Boys’ camping trip planned for this up coming weekend, nothing big just one over night stay. I got my one day fishing pass, I was going to go for the full year but the next season starts in January so I will just wait till then and buy the whole season. The last time I went fishing was last year and did not even get a nibble. I hope to be a little bit more successful this year! With high hopes I will trek on HA! I have never been much of a fisherman but have always fantasized about it, just one of those strange things that has always floated around in my head…..along with the endless scenarios/day dreams of what would a zombie apocalypses really be like, building a log cabin from scratch, what to cook for dinner, what I would do if I won the lottery, what to cook for dinner, how cool would it be to have super powers, what to cook for dinner, wondering what I would have done differently if i could go back in time, wishing my car could fly, what to cook for dinner…..I could go on but I need to get off, it is my turn to figure out dinner.
So till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything!
